Sundown, Texas is a little town of around 1,500 in population sitting in the middle of the Llano Estacado. The town is off the beaten path – meaning you have to purposely drive to it to get to it. This small rural West Texas town is in an economic crisis due to poor governance. Why…
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Photographer and writer, who's a bit of a taphophile and loves true crime, history, wildlife, and Goth music. Most of all a dog-lover.
Haunting Photograph of Ethel
In a Llano Estacado cemetery, a lone tombstone remains hauntingly untouched by time and from the elements of nature and man. It’s rare when you come across a perfectly decades old intact tombstone and photo ceramic gravestone marker in this region. Often the photos are damaged by high winds carrying sand and dirt or…
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In celebration of National Puppy Day – here’s my tribute to my lovely girl, Azrael. She’s always by my side and when I curse at my editing or anything else that deserves curses this is the response I get – “What can I doooooo?” She always has my back with her ever-watchful eyes and…
Read MoreForewarning at Historic Hockley County Jail
Sitting on the southeast corner of the Hockley County Courthouse Square is a rather nondescript two-story white building built in 1938 as a jail. The lower northeast section was reserved for living quarters for the county sheriff. The second floor housed an odd number of 13 jail cells. Cooking for the prisoners fell upon the…
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